Tuesday morning we reached 2 Billion BOINC results processed by SETI@home! Or to be more accurate, 2 to the power of 31 results (2,147,483,648). This explains why we haven't yet recovered from the weekly outage: we need to update code to accept larger numbers.
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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

This morning we reached 2 Billion BOINC results processed by SETI@home! Or to be more accurate, 2 to the power of 31 results (2,147,483,648). This explains why we're a little slow to recover from today's outage: we need to update code to accept larger numbers.

This morning we reached 2 Billion BOINC results processed by SETI@home! Or to be more accurate, 2 to the power of 31 results (2,147,483,648). This explains why we're a little slow to recover from today's outage: we need to update code to accept larger numbers.

"wow. I don't have not even ONE work unit to crunch. Now that is super slow. And I am thinking on upgrading with a P6T7 motherboard and four GTX 570, I must be crazy."

This is your best opportunity to do your upgrade. No WUs, the machine is nice and cool. You won't miss a thing. If you wait, your computer will be loaded up with work units and you might not have the heart to stop them.

All of you crunchers out there contemplating an upgrade, take this as a sign and do it now. Strike while the iron is cold! :)
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Hmm, where I come from 4 bytes is just an int; ulong is 8 bytes.
Mebbe you need to get a more modern computer. :-)

Depends on the compiler and the environment. I was doing some C++ stuff in Linux a few years back.
Two machines, same distro, but one was 32-bit and the other was 64.
ulong on 32-bit was 4 bytes, on 64-bit it was 8.

Yes, I think the C Standard do not define the exact size in bytes of integer types.

Maybe the size of unsigned long int is chosen to match the full size of CPU registers?
(in 32-bit CPU mode the CPU registers are seen as 32-bit/4 bytes;
And in 64-bit CPU mode the full length CPU registers are "unlocked" - 64-bit/8 bytes)

True, but they are celebrating 1 billion and there are no work units to work on for THREE days. I have my computer set for 10 days of work!! Something is not right.

There have been limits in place for weeks now preventing caches from filling to anything near what you have set, depending on the speed of your computer.

The limits have been in place due to a bad Boinc server code change, which still has not been fully corrected yet. It may be some weeks yet after the current situation is sorted for the original problem to be tackled.
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